Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh,… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating,… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
“I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.” — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
